WIPO WIPO/SMEs/GE/05/1 Prov. ORIGINAL: English DATE: May 25, 2005 WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERT Y O RGANI ZATION GENEVA E WIPO FORUM ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES FOR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OFFICES OF OECD COUNTRIES AND SOUTH MEDITERRANEAN COUNTRIES Geneva, May 25 and 26, 2005 PROVISIONAL PROGRAM prepared by the Secretariat
page 2 Wednesday, May 25, 2005 8.30 9.00 Registration 9.00 9.30 Opening Ceremony: Address on behalf of the Director General by: Sherif Saadallah, Executive Director, Office of Strategic Use of Intellectual Property for Development (WIPO) 9.30 10.00 Keynote address: WIPO and its SME-Related Activities Guriqbal Singh Jaiya, Director, SMEs Division, WIPO 10.00 10.15 Coffee Break 10.15 12.45 Theme 1: Outreach and Support Plans, Projects, Products and Services for Schools, Colleges, Universities, Research Institutes, Science/Research Parks, Technology Parks and Innovation Centers Theodore Schultz, Director West Regional Office, Mexican IP Office, Mexico Miles Rees, Business Development Manager, Awareness, Information & Media, UK Patent Office, London Simona Marzetti (Mrs.), Secretary General, International Network for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (INSME), Rome Pascal Duyck, Training Design Manager, National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI), Paris Gilles Capart, Chairman of the Board, Proton Europe, Belgium, Brussels 12.45 14.00 Lunch
Wednesday, May 25, 2005 (cont.) WIPO/SMEs/GE/05/1 Prov. page 3 14.00 16.00 Theme 2: Outreach and Support/Training Plans, Projects, Products and Services for Entrepreneurs, SMEs and SME Support and SME Finance Institutions, including Venture Capitalists Mika Waris, Director, Marketing and Business Services, National Board of Patents and Registration of Finland, Helsinki Richard Leclerc, Manager, Outreach and Dissemination Special Projects, Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO), Ottawa-Hull Pascal Duyck, Training Design Manager, National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI), Paris Sophie Reboud (Ms.), Head of Management Department, Group ESC, Dijon 16.00 16.15 Coffee Break 16.15 17.45 Theme 3: Improvements in IP Information and Search Services Serge Quazzotti, Director of Technology Watch Centre, Technoport Schlassgoart, Luxembourg Roland Tschudin, Head of Training Center for Patents, Trademarks, Designs and Authors Rights, Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property, Bern Mariano Nieto, Technical Advisor Patent Department, Spanish Patent and Trademark Office, Madrid
page 4 Thursday, May 26, 2005 9.00 11.00 Theme 4: Marketing the Services of IP Offices to Business and Industry; Plans, Projects, Products and Services Giuseppe Perale, Manager, Politecnico of Milan, Milan Heike Scheuerpflug (Mrs.), Office, IPR-Helpdesk Officer, European Research and Project Office GmbH, Saarbrücken Roland Tschudin, Head of Training Center for Patents, Trademarks, Designs and Authors Rights, Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property, Bern Serge Quazzotti, Director of Technology Watch Centre, Technoport Schlassgoart, Luxembourg 11.00 11.30 Coffee Break 11.30 12.00 Theme 5: On-line Newsletters, E-filing and E-support Services for Users of IP Office Services Christel Heremans (Ms.), Head of Service & Information, Benelux Trademark Office 12.00 12.30 Theme 6: E-learning Programs on IP for Entrepreneurs, Engineers, Managers/Staff and Owners of SMEs Francesca Toso (Mrs.), Head, Distance Learning Section, WIPO 12.30 14.00 Lunch Break 14.00 15.00 Theme 7: Support for Dealing with Counterfeiting and Piracy Miles Rees, Business Development Manager, Awareness, Information & Media, UK Patent Office, London Silvia Navares Gonzales (Ms.), Head, International Cooperation and Courts Relations, Spanish Patent and Trademark Office, Madrid
page 5 Thursday, May 26, 2005 (cont.) 15.00 15.30 Theme 8: Monetary Patent Valuation Guido Von Scheffer, Director Sales and Organization, IP Bewertungs AG (IPB), Hamburg 15.30 16.00 Coffee Break 16.15 16.30 Theme 9: Research and Studies on Use of IP by SMEs Andrew Beale, Director, IP Wales, Swansea 16.30 17.15 Round table [End of document]